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bouche reacted to Velvet in The Chicago Thread
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/grateful-dead-end-50-year-career-with-moving-magnificent-final-show-20150706
"I have spent my life/Seeking all that's still unsung/Bent my ear to hear the tune," sang Phil Lesh last night, harmonizing with colleagues new and old, on "Attics of My Life," the final song of a fraught, moving, ultimately magnificent five-night, two-state Fare The Well concert series — billed as the final shows that the surviving members of the Grateful Dead will ever perform together. The final concert was also the run's strongest, showcasing a new band hitting its stride precisely as it was set to retire. The new guys — Phish's Trey Anastasio, RatDog's Jeff Chimenti and returning moonlighter Bruce Hornsby — found equal footing and perfect sync with original band members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzman and Mickey Hart. It was clear from the opener, "China Cat Sunflower" into "I Know You Rider," one of the band's most emblematic and potent pairings. When Anastasio and Hornsby, not Weir or Lesh, traded lead vocals on the former, it felt like a torch was passed. And when the 70,000 fans sang "I know you rider/Gonna miss me when I'm gone" during the latter, it was like they were singing those words to each other.
SIDEBAR The Grateful Dead Say Farewell: Fricke's View From the Bowl »As good as the music was, much of the night's magic was in the connections: meeting fellow fans, finding out where they travelled from, a bit of what their lives are like, how long ago they saw their first Dead show; or showering ushers and security staff with grins, salutations and high-fives, like a bunch of tipsy, T-shirted Jehovah's Witnesses working a neighborhood. I came to this show with a friend who joined me at my first Dead show in 1977, but variously hung and partied with a Santa Monica children's book writer, a Wisconsin college professor, an L.A. vapor-pen manufacturer and an Illinois Spanish teacher. Strangers stopped strangers just to shake their hand, share a joint, dance a jig, hug it out or serenade each other. Friends and lovers sang into each others' mouths and dove into each others' eyes, swimming through flashbacks of who-knows-what.
Bob Weir If there's a lesson in this, it's that music's true value is not so much about the individual players, distinguished and virtuosic as they might be; it's about the beauty, pleasure and love it communicates, and the community it engenders. The relationship Deadheads have with these songs is deeply personal: We've eaten, slept, and breathed this music, bonded and tripped and fucked and fallen in love to it. It seems to carry with it an implicit set of spiritual, ethical and hedonistic values, and it marks the tribe, which extends beyond the Dead's music. Over the course of this weekend's shows, improv-minded acts flooded Chicago. Among them were Jerry Garcia's old confidant and side-project partner David Grisman, who played jazzy bluegrass fusion with his sextet on Sunday afternoon to a reverent mob at the historic Palmer House Hotel ballroom. The town became jam-band ground zero.
SIDEBAR Inside the Grateful Dead's Final Ride »But it was all gravy for the final event. Sunday's set list was scattershot, a mix of songs not yet played during the previous shows with the exception of "Drums"/"Space" and the signature "Truckin,'" whose iconic reprise "What a long, strange trip it's been" never felt so earned. There was a powerful "Estimated Prophet," with a guitar rave-up so intense, Bob Weir missed his vocal cue. A leisurely stroll of a jam came out of "Mountains of the Moon," cast more as a jazzy blues than the space chant of the studio recording, with notes looking around and smelling the flowers. Lesser songs ("Built to Last," "Throwing Stones") featured some of the night's most beautiful playing. It proved a Dead truism that when the group of abstractionists is on point, the specific material isn't always important.
For his part, Anastasio — the show's wild card, as the man who had to fill Jerry Garcia's shoes — came across as a musician transformed. He worked grooves more supple than most anything in the repertoire of Phish, his day job, with remarkable restraint, marked by longer sustains and more soulful phrasing, while his signature antsy-ness help embellish and goose along slower songs. Maybe his finest moments were on a majestically thundering "Terrapin Station," where he spun out lines like baroque morse code. It's hard to imagine that his playing won't emerge significantly changed from this experience.
"Terrapin"'s lyrical crescendo — "but the train's put its brakes on and the whistle is screaming" — would be echoed much later in the night's improvisational "Drums"/"Space," with a howling electronic outburst of train whistle and shrieking brake tones, followed eventually by the angular jazz-funk of "Unbroken Chain." Bob Weir delivered a haunting version "Days Between," a darkly handsome obscurity written by poet-lyricist Robert Hunter and Garcia during the guitarist's plagued final days. It moved like a processional, graced by Anastasio's slow-motion melody lines, earning itself a newly privileged place in the band's songbook.
Trey Anastasio and Phil Lesh The show ended with Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" fading out beneath 70,000 fans chanting the title reprise and clapping out the beat even after the band left the stage — yet another family tradition. Phil Lesh, the Dead's default leader since Garcia's death, came back before the encore to pitch the importance of organ donation (he is most likely alive because of a 1998 liver transplant) and to thank fans for listening.
Two more songs, the last accompanied on the projection screens by a brief photographic history, and it was done. The band repeated the bow and group hug sequence, while fans cheered and brushed away tears. Mickey Hart offered some parting words: "The feeling we have here," he said, "remember it, take it home and do some good with it." And then approximately 70,000 Deadheads floated out of Soldier Field and up through Grant Park, presumably with thoughts of doing just that.
Set 1:
"China Cat Sunflower" > "I Know You Rider"
"Estimated Prophet"
"Built to Last"
"Samson and Delilah"
"Mountains of the Moon" > "Throwing Stones"
Set 2:
"Truckin'"
"Cassidy"
"Althea"
"Terripin Station"
"Drums" > "Space"
"Unbroken Chain"
"Days Between"
"Not Fade Away"
Encores:
"Touch of Grey"
"Attics of My Life"
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/grateful-dead-end-50-year-career-with-moving-magnificent-final-show-20150706#ixzz3fBjkMWtI
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bouche reacted to Esau. in Stephen Colbert Debuts On Michigan Public Access Show (interviews Eminem)
Full show.
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bouche reacted to boiler in GD50 Santa Clara - off limits to Velvet thread
I found that one too, it's pretty swell
Found this too: http://m.ustream.tv/channel/heavythingsopener
That being said, Panic is killing it at Red Rocks tonight, multitasking live streams tonight. http://mixlr.com/widespread-panic/
Schools has been on fire last 2 nights
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bouche got a reaction from bradm in What are you planning on catching at Ottawa Jazzfest?
These brooklyn guys are in the late night tent tonight.
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bouche got a reaction from Jaimoe in Could Cornerstone Row be the greatest Toronto song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxKI7CWtRyA
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bouche reacted to Davey Boy 2.0 in Could Cornerstone Row be the greatest Toronto song?
YYZ is no slouch of a tune
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bouche reacted to phorbesie in SEAM @ Mugshots (Ott.) June 11
Very fun. Love the courtyard!
Brad, I know I said last night that I'll go to WSP, but now that i am sober again, I probably won't
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bouche reacted to DevO in Bonnarroo couch tour alert - this weekend
http://www.jambase.com/Articles/125401/Couch-Tour-Alert-Red-Bull-Bonnaroo-Webcast
Bonnaroo 2015 Red Bull Webcast Schedule (All times CT, subject to change)
Thursday, June 11:
Channel 1
Unlocking the Truth 7:15 p.m.
DMA's 8:15 p.m.
Temples 9:00 p.m.
Courtney Barnett 11:15 p.m,
Channel 2
Ryn Weaver 7:15 p.m.
Iceage 8:00 p.m.
Dopapod 9:00 p.m.
The Growlers 10:30 p.m.
Benjamin Booker 11:15 p.m.
Friday, June 12:
Channel 1
Royal Blood 5:05 p.m.
Dawes 6:15 p.m.
Guster 7:15 p.m.
Alabama Shakes 8:15 p.m.
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals 11:00 p.m.
deadmau5 12:45 a.m. (6/13)
Channel 2
SOJA 5:05 p.m.
Against Me! 6:05 p.m.
Tears For Fears 8:30 p.m.
Ben Folds & yMusic 9:45 p.m.
Run the Jewels 11:15 p.m.
Earth, Wind & Fire 12:15 a.m. (6/13)
Channel 3
Between the Buried and Me 5:05 p.m.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra 6:05 p.m.
Moon Taxi 7:15 p.m.
Sylvan Esso 8:15 p.m.
Atmosphere 9:15 p.m.
Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood 11:15 p.m.
Mac DeMarco 12:15 a.m. (6/13)
Saturday, June 13:
Channel 1
Rhiannon Giddens 5:05 p.m.
Bleachers 6:45 p.m.
My Morning Jacket 8:00 p.m.
Hozier 10:15 p.m.
Mumford & Sons 11:30 p.m.
Channel 2
Trampled By Turtles 5:05 p.m.
Jamie xx 6:15 p.m.
Gary Clark Jr. 7:30 p.m.
Belle & Sebastian 8:30 p.m.
ODESZA 9:45 p.m.
Channel 3
Bahamas 6:00 p.m.
SZA 7:00 p.m.
Atomic Bomb! Who is William Onyeabor? 8:15 p.m.
Gramatik 9:45 p.m.
SBTRKT 10:45 p.m.
Tycho 12:15 a.m.(6/14)
Sunday, June 14:
Channel 1
Twenty One Pilots 5:05 p.m..
AWOLNATION 6:30 p.m.
Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters 8:00 p.m.
Billy Joel 9:30 p.m.
Channel 2
Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear 5:05 p.m.
Brandi Carlile 6:15 p.m.
Spoon 7:45 p.m.
D'Angelo and The Vanguard 9:00 p.m.
Channel 3
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn 5:05 p.m.
Jerry Douglas Presents Earls of Leicester 6:15 p.m.
Rudimental 7:15 p.m.
Punch Brothers 8:30 p.m..
The Bluegrass Situation 9:30 p.m.
Caribou 10:45 p,m.
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bouche reacted to Freak By Night in Ottawa FolkFest becomes CityFolk, moves to Lansdowne
Bouche had me fooled at the Carleton Tavern on Friday night. I had been a long time since I had seen him so we were catching up.
Me: "I'm quite impressed with the lineup for City folk festival"
Him: "Really? I thought it sucked" (accompanied by a convincing scowl)
Me (thinking has it really been that long since I've seen him?) "Why, who would you rather see?"
Him: "That DJ Zed who played at the bluesfest"
anyway he had me fooled for a minute, I really thought he was serious. Good times bouche!
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bouche reacted to mark tonin in Dan Walsh + No Buds For Bob @ Carleton (Ott.) June 5
Dan Walsh puts on a cool show. Check it out if you can. Especially if you like guitar players. And beards.
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bouche reacted to Davey Boy 2.0 in Ottawa FolkFest becomes CityFolk, moves to Lansdowne
pretty pretty pretty good
Van Morrison
Wilco
Of Monsters and Men
The Sheepdogs
The Barr Brothers
Passenger
Wintersleep
Walk Off The Earth
The Avett Brothers
UB40
The Tubes
Patrick Watson
Lord Huron
Elle King
Lisa LeBlanc
Lucinda Williams
St. Paul & The Broken Bones
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
Amy Helm
Lucius
Lee Harvey Osmond
Steep Canyon Rangers
Built to Spill
Sun Kil Moon
Will Butler
Steve Poltz
Fortunate Ones
The Everyone Orchestra
Frank Fairfield & The Down Hill Strugglers
Terra Lightfoot
Scarlett Jane
Charlie A'Court
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bouche got a reaction from hamilton in Politics forum is under attack!!!!
That's an option, but then what forum do you think JohnnyLom and other spam douches will hit if it's removed?
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bouche got a reaction from Davey Boy 2.0 in Politics forum is under attack!!!!
That's an option, but then what forum do you think JohnnyLom and other spam douches will hit if it's removed?
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bouche reacted to mark tonin in Jamland documentary trailer
I really appreciate the kind words and the feedback! Thank you. Please forward the link to the trailer and/or the jamland.tv website to anybody who might be interested in the film. I will be working with my partner on this project to come up with a plan to get this film out for others to see. The film documents the Jamland festival, but we've really tried to create a film that moves along quickly, with some universal story lines, humour and cool visuals that will hopefully appeal to a wide audience. The premiere screening event is shaping up nicely. Peace, Mark
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bouche reacted to Esau. in ‘The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir’ Doc on netflix today
Its on both Canadian and American netflix.
https://www.relix.com/blogs/detail/watch_official_trailer_for_the_other_one_the_long_strange_trip_of_bob_weir
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bouche got a reaction from c-towns in Prince in Toronto - May 19
An hour after the sale, I was easily pulling up tix for nearly any section. Cheapest was $100. The only ticket I wanted was in the PIT. Super close to prince and only $100 more than the far away seats. I don't want to spend the cash, so didn't jump in.
BTW, tix are still coming up. I thought this would be sold out heures ago
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bouche reacted to Velvet in Prince in Toronto - May 19
Made it in for the second show. It was incredible. The whole room was on its feet from start to finish.
Let's Go Crazy Take Me With U Raspberry Beret U Got the Look The Question of U / The One Electric Man (Muddy Waters cover) Controversy 1999 Little Red Corvette Nothing Compares 2 U Encore: Kiss When Doves Cry Sign “☮” the Times Housequake Forever in My Life Hot Thing Nasty Girl (Vanity 6 cover) Darling Nikki A Love Bizarre (Sheila E. cover) 17 Days Pop Life Mountains Love U Know I Would Die 4 U Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (Michael Jackson cover) Cool (The Time cover) Encore 2: Diamonds and Pearls Love Me Tender (Elvis Presley cover) The Beautiful Ones Purple Rain -
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bouche reacted to Esau. in Prince Releases A Full Soundboard Recording of Show At His House
Saw this posted on my fb feed and know there are a few folks here that like his music, so I'm sharin.. (hopefully I won't be sued).
http://liveforlivemusic.com/news/listen-to-prince-dance-rally-4-peace-concert/
https://soundcloud.com/prince3eg/dancerally4peace
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